Sterilization or Vaccination?

With all the money we collected over the first semester we organized a sterilization for dogs and cats, where the option of a vaccination was available too. As I mentioned before the aim of DAWG is to organize this event, but this year we managed to collect enough money in the first semester, so we decided to not waste another semester, but to organize it at the end of semester one. I was really proud that we could, because it does say something about the organization and team work we’ve done to get the money together. We advertised by hanging up posters in English, Sinhala and Tamil around the school area and on the day we had a tuk-tuk go around announcing it in the area, which I thought was pretty successful because that way people not only get to hear about it but they also got reminded about it on the day.

We had a group of vets come down from Kandy and we rented a hall in Battaramula, these were the major expenses, but without them we couldn’t do anything so we had no choice. We got plastic tables, chairs, newspapers and bins from the school to aid the vets in what they needed and we all signed up for a shift, although the leaders (Paul, Mo & I) had to be there the whole time. The sterilization went really successful! It was the best we’ve had so far because we managed to sterilize 54 dogs and cats and we gave 29 vaccines. There was a journalist from the Lanka Woman (LW) that took pictures and also wrote an article about the event this got published in the December edition but I’ll post up a scan!

Because this was the goal for the year and having two sterilization would be too much, we decided that we would not have DAWG in the second semester, we do though have plans for next year’s DAWG and we are planning to organize two sterilizations next year, one in November and the other in April, so fingers crossed that it’ll work.